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SpatialOS GDK for Unreal Example Project

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The SpatialOS Game Development Kit (GDK) for Unreal is an Unreal Engine fork and plugin with associated projects. It gives you the features of SpatialOS, within the familiar workflows and APIs of Unreal Engine. For more information, see the GDK's documentation website.

To understand the feature-completeness, stability, performance, and support levels you can expect from the GDK, see the product maturity lifecycle page. For more information, visit the development roadmap and Unreal features support pages, and contact us via our forums, or on Discord.

This is the repository for the Example Project, an example shooter game that uses the GDK.

In addition to the Example Project, the GDK also contains:

About the Example Project

The Example Project contains gameplay and assets that are representative of a basic first-person shooter running on SpatialOS. If you want to make your own project from scratch, use the Starter Template by following the Starter Template guide in the GDK for Unreal documentation.

For setup instructions, follow the Example Project guide in the GDK for Unreal documentation.

For more information, see the SpatialOS GDK for Unreal documentation.

Game controls

The following controls are bound in-game, for gameplay and testing.

Key Binding Function
W,A,S,D Standard movement
Space Jump
Shift Sprint
Left Click Fire
Number keys 1 - 0 Select weapon

Helper scripts

This repository contains a set of helper scripts to get you started.

Helper script Description
LaunchSpatial.bat Starts a local SpatialOS deployment with the default launch configuration.
LaunchServer.bat Starts an Unreal server-worker, and connects it to the local deployment.
LaunchClient.bat Starts an Unreal client-worker, and connects it to the local deployment.
ProjectPaths.bat Used by the LaunchClient.bat, LaunchServer.bat and LaunchSpatial.bat to specify the project environment when those scripts are run

Give us feedback

We have released the GDK for Unreal this early in development because we want your feedback. Please come and talk to us about the software and the documentation via: Discord - Forums - GitHub issues in this repository.

Public contributors

We are not currently accepting public contributions. However, we are accepting issues and we do want your feedback.

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